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Vanderbilt: Judges And Jurors: Their Functions, Qualifications And Selection, Maynard E. Pirsig Nov 1957

Vanderbilt: Judges And Jurors: Their Functions, Qualifications And Selection, Maynard E. Pirsig

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Judges and Jurors: Their Functions, Qualifications and Selection. By Arthur T. Vanderbilt.


Vanderbilt: The Challenge Of Law Reform, Glenn R. Winters Apr 1956

Vanderbilt: The Challenge Of Law Reform, Glenn R. Winters

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Challenge of Law Reform. By Arthur T. Vanderbilt.


In Suport Of The Thayer Theory Of Presumptions, Charles V. Laughlin Dec 1953

In Suport Of The Thayer Theory Of Presumptions, Charles V. Laughlin

Michigan Law Review

A learned judge once said to a young lawyer, "If you are ever a trial court judge, never give reasons for your decisions. Your rulings will probably be right, but your reasons will likely be wrong." That statement may aptly apply to judicial pronouncements relating to the subject of presumptions. Decisions are largely free from criticism so far as concerns the results reached, but the reasoning processes by which they are reached appear to be in hopeless confusion. It is believed that a theory can be presented which will both reconcile these confusions of judicial techniques and explain the general …


Book Reviews, Nathan Isaacs, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, Arthur H. Basye, Leonard D. White, Victor H. Lane, Edwin D. Dickinson Apr 1922

Book Reviews, Nathan Isaacs, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, Arthur H. Basye, Leonard D. White, Victor H. Lane, Edwin D. Dickinson

Michigan Law Review

What does a judge do when he decides a case? It would be interesting to collect the answers ranging from those furnished by primitive systems of law in which the judge was supposed to consult the gods to the ultra-modern, rather profane system described to me recently by a retrospective judge: "I make up my mind which way the case ought to be decided, and then I see if I can't get some legal ground to make it stick." Perhaps the widespread impression is the curiously erroneous one lampooned by Gnaeus Flavius (Kantorowitz). The judge is supposed to sit at …